Read the recent publication by members of Thinking Historically for Canada's Future titled: Never the two shall meet? Connecting historical and democratic consciousness in Canadian K-12 history textbooks. DOI: doi.org/10.14324/HER.... @carlapeck.bsky.social @ualbertaed.bsky.social

It’s time to replace “discovery” and “exploration” with navigation and colonization. 🗺️🗃️ www.liberatingnarratives.com/europeans-di...

My first day of school looks a little different this year as I’ve joined UBC’s Faculty of Education as an Adjunct Professor! 15 years ago, almost to the day, I entered the same building as a student and I’m so excited to be back to share my love of Social Studies with future teachers.

It’s me!

New podcast!!! You can listen to @abbyreisman.bsky.social and I discuss the importance of discussions in the social studies classroom! It get meta!! visionsofed.com/2025/07/21/e...

#historyteacher #iteachsocialstudies

This blog series offers reflections on the History Education in Troubled Times workshop. Read about it here: thinking-historically.ca/history-educ... @carlapeck.bsky.social @ualbertaed.bsky.social @sarakarn.bsky.social

…. My students and I also read this article about “critical ignoring” as in addition to strategies like lateral reading, the authors recommend “self-nudging” in making our own choices in consuming online information theconversation.com/when-critica.... 2/2

Members of Thinking Historically for Canada's Future recently published an article titled Historical Thinking: Trends, Critiques, and Future Directions. Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... @carlapeck.bsky.social @ualbertaed.bsky.social

Are you students quick to jump to conclusions? A See, Think, Wonder will get them to slow down and look more closely. 🗞️ See, Think, Wonder is a thinking routine developed by Project Zero. #HistoryTeacher #teachers #SocialStudies #HistoryEducation

This would be really helpful to use with students who tend to use the word "bias" as a crutch when analyzing sources #historyteacher #iteachsocialstudies

🫣 If you're feeling overwhelmed scrolling social media, you're not alone. Bad actors also take advantage of heavy news cycles with #misinformation that plays on emotions. 👇🏾 Here are some basic #NewsLiteracy tips to stay sharp online. 🔗 Download the poster: bit.ly/7tipsNLP

Just putting this out there… books.google.co.uk/books?id=UVk...

Teaching literary theory has been the most influential approach I’ve used to improve HS students’ interpretive ability. Theory helps them see what’s possible with interpretation, not just what’s permitted by “correct” readings. #literacies #iteachenglish #edusky open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

Members of Thinking Historically for Canada's Future recently published an OpEd in The Conversation, Decolonizing history and social studies curricula has a long way to go in Canada . Click here to read more: theconversation.com/decolonizing... @sarakarn.bsky.social @krllewellyn.bsky.social

History Teachers: Does anyone have any resources/activities where students analyze historical interpretations/claims made by others they can share? #historyteacher #iteachsocialstudies #historyeducation

Bring ELA and social studies together in this engaging, creative project! 🤝 Here’s a how-to guide from teachers Dana Haring and Tom Kelner. #ITeachSocialStudies #ITeachEnglish #MiddleSchool #HistoryEducation

History teachers: this is a really interesting thread on periodization! #historyteacher #iteachsocialstudies

Ok, you find it funny or interesting why some centuries are "long" and others are "short" and why do historians use terms like "the Middle Ages" or "the Renaissance" but get cross about it all the time? And keep forbidding things like "the Dark Ages"? Isn't it weird? Well, no. 1/

What does the gradual release of responsibility look like *in practice*? Educator Kara Douma shifts the responsibility to her students by empowering them to choose their own scaffolding strategies. 🙌 #MiddleSchoolTeacher #EduSky #NewTeachers

I'm putting together a list of books specifically related to Social Studies/History/Geography pedagogy to share with my department. If you have recommendations, please share them below! #sschat #historyeducation #iteachsocialstudies #historyteacher #EduSky

"Understanding how to do something without AI is one of the prerequisites for learning how to do it well with AI." I really enjoyed this piece written by @joshbrake.com on AI and the importance of expertise. #sschat open.substack.com/pub/joshbrak...

Learn more about the Portraits of Professional Practice: thinking-historically.ca/ppp/ @carlapeck.bsky.social @ualbertaed.bsky.social

70 minute wait today to vote in the Vancouver by-election. The sticker was worth it though!

New Article! Better thinking about online information requires skills, practice, AND knowledge. I make the case that this new crisis highlights just how badly we need great history classes. theconversation.com/why-history-...

We're looking for historians and history teachers in Canada to share their beliefs about history and presentism. If you're interested in participating in this study, please click the following link: ualbertauw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We are excited to announce the launch of our Portraits of Professional Practice (PPP) webpage! The PPP project focuses on understanding how the context where history is taught shapes educators’ practices. Learn more at thinking-historically.ca/ppp/ @carlapeck.bsky.social

World History Teachers Blog: Ten Historians: 10 Different Interpretations on Who Started WWI bit.ly/40AKVcw #sschat

New Paper! The first validated observation tool for social studies classroom discussions! Introducing the SSDI (social studies discourse instrument) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ETANM...

To combat toxic polarization, correcting the false belief that the "other side" harbors extreme animosity is key. A group dynamics expert explains an experiment where partisans saw, in real time, how inaccurate their beliefs about opponents were: https://buff.ly/4hpUj9A #polisky #psychology

🗃️ I'm always excited about teaching, but I'm *really* excited to teach my grad level pedagogy course this semester. 1/ sylteachhistuniversitymendoza.tiiny.site

ICYMI: *Teaching History: A Journal of Methods* had a whole issue on using the #unessay. #AHA25 openjournals.bsu.edu/teachinghist...

Attention Canadian K-12 social studies & history teachers. The Treaty Map includes every Canadian treaty from 1763-present, & challenges the commonly held view of treaties as land surrenders. Includes an interactive learning & teaching tool, grounded in Indigenous perspectives of treaties.

Finished reading my last book of the year on the last day of 2024. This was a really interesting read about the manipulations and misuses of the Middle Ages in the present, which often have insidious motives. Thank you for the recommendation @kfduggan.bsky.social!

The opium trade was more than the Opium Wars; it was central to the 19th century global economy. This free post focuses on how we can rethink our teaching of the opium trade 🗺️🗃️

TIL that in 1843 the artist George Catlin accompanied 14 Báxoje (Iowa) on a tour of Britain, and they were so horrified by the poverty they saw everywhere that when some clerics asked to talk to them about sending missionairies among the Báxoje their leader Neumonya really let them have it.

#historyeducation #historyteacher

As we close the door on 2024, I want to bump this project. Free resources for Social Studies Teacher Educators. @socialstudies.org and @librarycongress.bsky.social were generous enough to support a few of us in thinking about deepening teaching practice. www.socialstudies.org/tps/teaching...

I've been thinking about why so many history students get themselves into a pickle by thinking an argument comes *before* research. More at my blog: catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Canadian history teachers! This is a great opportunity for professional development on historical thinking. I’ve done two of their institutes in the past and they’ve provided me with fantastic resources to use in the classroom #bced

Here are some helpful articles when teaching imperialism. 🗺️🗃️ Priya Satia's article about not teaching the pros and cons of imperialism is a must read for all teachers https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/pros-cons-british-empire-balance-sheet-history-imperialism.html

A rare and wonderful survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of plain-woven, undyed silk, c. AD 900. An exotic material in 10th-century Britain, the silk was imported to York from Persia via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

For the first time in my career, I'm teaching the "Scramble for Africa". A lot of the resources I found online weren't sitting right with me, until I found this 2019 post (www.liberatingnarratives.com/less-scrambl...) from @liberatingnarrs.bsky.social. #historyteacher #sschat #iteachsocialstudies

I think this is great! Really valuable to think about continuity as something complex and dynamic. It's not just about lack of change, but also over long term about change that reverts back, or is partial, or temporary. We combine this w/ concept of change, but give specific vocab to help students 👇

I’d love to see more Canadian history teachers added to this list- Where are we all hiding?

This is amazing. A Lithuanian researcher, Ernesta Kazakėnaitė, has identified the earliest surviving manuscript in a Sámi language: ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/je...

Source work fun with Y12! In our lesson introducing the Personal Rule, students had to think about the utility of each source then rank how far each one supported either the Whig or revisionist view of Charles' 11-year rule without Parliament. #ALevelHistory

When teaching European colonization of Africa, the maps we use can tell different stories. Too often, the story is about which European states conquered which parts of Africa. But what if we focus on how often and where Africans revolted against Europeans? The map below shows LOTS of uprisings. 🗺️🗃️

It’s so great to see more teachers switching over to BlueSky! Hello new followers! I’m Carly and I teach Socials 8, 9, and Urban Studies 12 in British Columbia. My recent deep dives have been in historiography and improving my students’ argumentation skills. Looking forward to connecting! 🗺️